Wichita eagle., 1887-08-12
OUR COMPLIMENTS 10 THE MAJoE

OUR COMPLIMENTS TO THE MAJOR.
From the Leavenworth Times.
An unreconstructed rebel sheet down at
Independence. Mo-, misnamed the Pro-
gress, goes into epileptic commissions of de-
light over the recent assault upon the edi-
tor of the. Times, and our Green back friend,
Major Hudson, of the Topeka Capital,
greatly to our surprise, copies the COM
ment and rolls it as sweet morsel under
his tongue
The animus of the hate of the Progress,
according to its own confession, dates back
into the "sixties" when we, in company
with number of ether gentlemen, made
trip to the Sni hills an beyond in the
interest of the Union 1t is barely
possible, owing to the difficulty the govss
eminent experienced at that time in trans
dorting supplies, that our party of tourists
may have so far forgotten themselves as to
forage from off the country through
which we passed. Intact our memory is
quite clear on this point, and that, without
fear of contradiction, that we did forage to
some extent, and that, in the recklessness
of youth, we probably did so without great
conjunction of conscience.
However as we were not travelling
through Missouri at that time with the idea
of making "mashes" on its secesh tnhabi-
tants, we cannot say that we contemplate
this latter-day hatred of the unreconstructed
rebs. with any considerable pang Of re-
gret.
This was a long time ago. Our object
then was to interfere with licking slaves;
and, in interfering with liquor slaves now,
we are engaged In much the same line of
work. At least we earn the hatred OF the
same class of men, barring, of course, our
angelic friend. Major Hudson, of the To-
peka Capital who, saving spasmOdic ten
dency to flop around into Greenbackism
and other isms, occasionally, may be
counted an estimable patriot.
By the way, we are unable to account
for these recent exhibitions of temper upon
the part of the major, unless, indeed, they
be prompted through spirit of petty hate
and jealousy entirely unworthy q good
prohibitionist and great financier. What
surprises us most, however, is the fact
that the Major should league himself with
such notorious whisky organs and apostles
of confederacy as the Kansas City Times
and the st. Joseph Gazette, in order to ex
press his exultation over the assault made
upon us by the boycotting, whisky league
of this city.
We do not want to be understood as en-
tering complaint. 1t is the God given
privilege of the Major to countenance and
applaud brutal assaults, and to league him
self with the whisky picked contingent of
the Democratic party, if he chooses. We
imagine that such course will work him
infinitely more harm than it does us-and
in the very nature of humanity there Is
Judas to every tribe.
We have little list'-in fact two of
them. One enumerates the state and neigh
borhood papers that endorses the recent
whisky assault upon us, comprising the
following: Kansas City Times whisky
Democrat Topeka Capital (patrioD; st Joe
Gazette whisky Democrat ;Atchison Globe
(O; Junction City Union (mugwump; In
MO- Progress, (rebeD. The
other list is of the paper that condemn, in
terms the brutal attack and
nearly every Republican paper
in the state and in the whole country. We
pu blished few extracts from the state pa
pers last Sunday.
AS we remarked before, we think we can
stand this sort of thing if the whisky inter
est and their organs can.